During the film festival, ASIFA-Colorado also presented its Best Animated Short Prize to Thomas Stellmach and Maja Oschmann of Germany for “Virtuos Virtuell”, a beautiful experimental animation timed perfectly to a composition.
Film clip:

Making of – tv special:

The press release of all winning films at the festival can be found here.

The workshops were held at over the first weekend of the festival and included 2 different sessions. The morning session was open to children aged 6 to 11 years and the afternoon session was open to participants aged 12 and older. We had a lot of fun working through these animations with all the attendees.

The theme of the Animation Station Competition this year was Killer Flying Robots Painting the Town Red. The participants included teams with 3 or fewer animators and the teams were given 6 hours after the theme was presented to come up with a completed animation.

The compiled workshops and competition film can be viewed here:

Congratulations to the competition winners:
First Place – Heather and Kendra Fleischman
Second Place – Jason Hogan
Third Place – Honor Miles, Shemsu Turner, David Cardoza